"I don't think I have any hypodermic needles lying around, I'm afraid, so we probably can't test that."

"Even if we could that wouldn't really be enough to prove your blood is always good for everyone."

"No, but it'd be useful to know if it can be delivered intravenously anyway."

"It's also not an experiment I'm all that comfortable with running unless I strictly need to."

"– Because injecting things into one's bloodstream generally seems like a bad idea, or because of things like blood diseases, or for some other or more specific reason?"

"Pretty much that."

Nod. "Ingestion hopefully doesn't pose the same risk but I dunno?"

She pauses, as if she hadn't considered this. "Maybe... we should start with people who are definitely going to die."

"And hope you haven't caught anything, if there is in fact anything to catch, yes."

"What a delight. I wonder if I should blame my carelessness on sway."

"Maybe? Which would be kinda annoying, if sway made us act more stupidly, 'cause we're dedicating more attention to other things or you just instinctively trusted my blood was okay or something."

"I think the last thing, yeah. If anything. Or it could've just been me being generally stupid."

"I'm– not actually sure how much sway extends to, like, objects or properties of mine if they're separated from me? Or, like, why it's relevant is that I don't know if nor how much you'd instinctively trust my blood or if it was because I was present and giving it to you."

"Probably the latter if anything," she shrugs.

"Probably!" he says. "But sway might extend to other things somehow so we should possibly keep a look out? Like, if I send you a letter it might apply to that? And I don't know if it would necessarily apply to something someone forged to make it seem like it was from me?"

"Not entirely sure how to test that yet, and I'm kinda burnt out on tests for today."

"Could try texting one person to do something who doesn't know who sent the text – from my phone so it seems like me – but yeah, probably enough tests for today."

"So, wanna go rob a blood bank and then save someone's life?"

"Sure," he says. "Sounds like fun. But I have no idea where the nearest blood bank is – do hospitals typically have them? I don't remember seeing one."

"I think they probably do, but I wonder if we can't buy blood like that..."

"I don't expect we can? Not without some sort of medical or lab license, unless we're talking illegally?"

"Well if we're gonna illegally buy it we might as well illegally steal it."

"Yeah, okay, but I expect we do need a license to buy it legally. Could look it up but I'm not sure I'll get many results for 'do I need a license to buy blood', not sure many people will have asked it?"

"It's the internet of course people have asked that."

Pause. "If you say so?"

More research, yay.

"Seems like you need a license."